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Depth Through Mindfulness

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Depth of Lights by Maria L. Berg 2025 “Mindfulness is the awareness that arises from paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.” ~ Jon…

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Light Depth

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Depth of Lights by Maria L. Berg 2025 Light Depth is is how far light penetrates in water, specifically the ocean. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)…

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Full Circle

Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z today. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Full Circle by Maria L. Berg 2025 Full Circle 1.Here I am again: Again I’ve come full circle.The flowers come too soon with so much left to dostalled upside down in the loop-de-loop of progresspositive change slides back as bad habits undoall hope…

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Depth of Knowledge

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Reviewing Anew by Maria L. Berg 2024 Deep Knowledge is a profound comprehensive understanding of a subject. It includes getting past the surface-level understanding to the specific…

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C. G. Jung & Depth Psychology

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. A photo of a picture of Jung from Man and his symbols (original photo uncredited) Depth psychology refers to the psychological study of the unconscious. Resources (these are amazon…

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Deep Image

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National /Global Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Cover of Trobar No. 1 The Deep Image Poets were a group of poets in the early 1960’s who wrote stylized, resonant poetry that operated according to the Symbolist theory of…

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Depth's Highs and Lows

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National (Global) Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Secret Music by Maria L. Berg 2021 Height and Depth may seem contradictory, but “high” is right there in the definition: “of color: high in saturation and low in lightness.” And since…

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Depth Grammar

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National (Global) Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Final Words by Maria L. Berg 2022 While searching for aspects of depth, I got really excited when I came across “Depth Grammar.” Could there be a more perfect topic for a writer…

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The Depths of Our Fears

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National (Global) Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Continuing this year’s theme, I’m writing about the A to Z of Depth. Fear of Predators by Maria L. Berg 2024 “we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.“��Seneca Fear serves a very important role in our lives. It can be a physical response to…

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Summer Seeds

Today being Sunday, there is no A to Z today. Here is my poem in response to the prompts at NaPoWriMo and Writer’s Digest’s Poem a Day Challenge. Reactions to Watermelon by Maria L. Berg 2025 Watermelon My whole face puckerstongue out, licking air searching for balancesome release from the sickly sweetgushing after the firstcrisp bite A splash of summertoo pink and stickypitted with seeds…

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Exploring Endless Depth

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National (Global) Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Endless depth by Maria L. Berg 2025 This year, I’m looking at the A-Z of Depth. I’ll leave the definitions up for the rest of this week for you to peruse. When I think of endless depth, I think of an abyss. An abyss is a seemingly bottomless chasm. It…

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An Artist Date Drawing Depth Data

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National (Global) Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Depth Data Drawing by Maria L. Berg 2025 This year, I’m looking at the A-Z of Depth. I’ll leave the definitions up for the rest of this week for you to peruse. Today, I’m talking about a specific artist date I enjoyed. As part of my depth study I have…

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Depth of Cognitive Complexity

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National (Global) Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Complexity by Maria L. Berg 2025 This year, I’m looking at the A-Z of Depth. Have certain definitions of depth peaked your interest? When I first typed up all the definitions of depth, I was intrigued by “sounding.” Sounding is one of the concrete…

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Deep-seated Belief

It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National (Global) Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Depth of Belief by Maria L. Berg 2025 This year, I’m looking at the A-Z of Depth. Have you started noticing all the different ways depth, deep, and deepen are used? Have you started seeing the words depth, deep, and deepen everywhere? I definitely…

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Abstract and Concrete Thinking

Here we are. It’s already April, and at Experience Writing that means it’s time for NaPoWriMo (National (Global) Poetry Writing Month) and the A-Z Challenge. Abstracting the Concrete Maria L. Berg 2021 This year, I will be looking at the A-Z of Depth. Here is a chart I made of the meanings of Depth, Deep, and Deepen: As you can see, depth has many meanings. Some of its meanings are concrete…

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The A-Z of Depth

This year’s theme for everything I’m doing on Experience Writing is Depth, so for this year’s daily posts in April I’ll be exploring the A-Z of Depth, and writing daily poems for Poetry Month about the A-Z of Depth. The word depth has many different and interesting meanings which I presented in my post “Our Depth Study Gets Meta with Depth & Complexity” , but what I am finding fascinating is how…

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5 Steps to Deeper Discovery

Today we’re celebrating breaking through the barricades that stop us from deeper self-discovery. A Yes in the Depths by Maria L. Berg 2025 In this year’s theme post I wrote, depth takes time. It isn’t forced or rushed. I am finding that to be the truth. I had two books, Healing Through Words by Rupi Kaur and How to Write Poetry: A Guided Journal with Prompts by Christopher Salerno & Kelsea…